Eastern International
College-Jersey City
For-profit College in Jersey City, NJ. Six-year graduation rate 6%. Median 10-year earnings $35,008.
Ten-year median earnings of $35,008 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is the weak point: 6% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $24,751, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.71 — elevated (above 0.60)
- ! Graduation rate 6% — below national average
Admissions
70% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool is small at 191, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. Yield sits at 32% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A six-year graduation rate of 6% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 55% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 474 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $20,136 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Only 42% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price. 61% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 33 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $21,111 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 290 of these 474 students, totalling $1,325,499 — an average of $4,571 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hudson County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)